[TriEmbed] my own AWS MQTT server

[Alex Davis]

I took advantage of the free AWS Cloud hosting offer to set up a little Ubuntu 18 server instance on which to run an MQTT server (https://aws.amazon.com/free) and some other things.

You can get 12 months of a small (1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage) virtual instance running Ubuntu. It's perfect for an MQTT server.

If you'd like to use it for MQTT experiments, please let me know. I will provide you the hostname and the  SSL cert. I used the following to get mosquitto set up with SSL: http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/mosquitto-tls/

I will be using this MQTT server as a way of simplifying my "NHL Goal Light" project. Instead of having the ESP8266 "IOT power switch" module try to parse the JSON from the nhl website (it sucks at it due to memory leaks), I will offload that to my AWS instance.  This way all the ESP8266 has to do is subscribe, and this can be handled easily in C++ vs what I have been doing in micropython.

Alex

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